December 2016
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IC Teaching Assistant Award 2016
Bin Jin received the Teaching Assistant Award 2016 for teaching excellence and exceptional work in the Introduction to Computer Vision and Computational Photography Courses.
November 2016
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IEEE Fellowship for Prof. Sabine Süsstrunk
Prof. Sabine Süsstrunk has been awarded the status of Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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LauzHack
Congratulations to Majed El Helou and his LauzHack team for reaching top-3 position. The team worked to perform shadow detection and removal, relying on previous work done at IVRL, leading to a substantial performance improvement on this difficult real-world problem. Well done!
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PhD Candidate
VRL welcomes Ruofan Zhou who has joined the lab after successfully passing her PhD Candidacy exam. Congratulations!
October 2016
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VisArt Workshop
Leonardo Impett presented a paper on Aby Warburg at the VisArt Workshop on Computer Vision for Art Analysis in Amsterdam.
September 2016
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IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
Bin Jin presented our paper on “Image Aesthetic Predictors based on Weighted CNNS” in the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2016, Phoenix.
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www.thersa.org
IVRL member Leonardo Impett has been made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London.
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Vizir
Adrien Birbaumer and Martijn Bosch have advanced to the second stage of Venture Kick with ‘Vizir’. Congratulations!
August 2016
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PhD Candidate
Leonardo Impett has joined IVRL after successfully passing his PhD Candidacy exam. Welcome!
May 2016
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Vizir
Adrien Birbaumer and Martijn Bosch’s “Vizir” project, aiming at providing firefighters with thermal information on an augmented reality display, received a lot of press this week, having been featured on EPFL’s main page. They have successfully developed a Proof of Concept which has been tested and validated by professional firefighters of the Vaud Canton.
April 2016
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IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging
Bin Jin, Gökhan Yildirim, Cheryl Lau, Appu Shaji, Maria Ortiz Segovia and Sabine Süsstrunk won the best student paper runner-up award for “Modeling the Importance of Faces in Natural Images” at the Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XX Conference in the Electronic Imaging Symposium, 2015.